lawful under war no problem. or should we call their murder, extra judicial kills as many human right have asserted. don't have a bases anymore. i worry about the precedence we're setting for other less scrupulous states such as russia, china, and et cetera. all of this i can talk about in more detail during the question period. i think what it comes down to, senators, is that right now we have executive branch making a claim it has the right to kill anyone, anywhere on earth, at any time, for secret reasons based on secret evidence in a secret process undertaken by unidentified officials. that frightens me. i don't doubt their good faith but that's not the rule of law also we know it in my statement submitted for the record i do suggest a number of reforms that might improve our ability to ensure oversight and accountability. i don't have time to discuss them out in but i hope we will address those issues later, and i'll leave you with this final thought for now. which is that i believe that it is absolutely pos